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From: Eduardo =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= <100018135@alumnos.uc3m.es>
To: Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@centras.lt>
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Subject: Re: fork() wait semantics
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On 2002-10-15 20:07:43 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:58:44PM +0000, Eduardo P?rez wrote:
> > As an example consider bash. In case of fork() error the program
> > isn't even run thus causing a fatal error. If fork() waited for
> > resources to be available there wouldn't be any problem.
> 
> No, thank you.  This happened to me more than once (runaway fetchmail
> plugins).  An error message about a failing fork() indicates
> immediately that I have too many processes, and I can kill them
> (thankfully kill is a bash builtin).  If bash just waited silently I
> wouldn't know what to think.

But you are talking about buggy software.
If you software has bugs don't expect it to work properly.

These fork() semantics are for non-buggy software.
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